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According to Greek myth, Pandora was the first mortal woman.

Endowed by the gods with traits like cleverness, curiosity, charm, and beauty, her name in fact

means a gift to all or all gifted. Zeus, the king of the gods, had Pandora created in order to get revenge.

The target of his wrath was Prometheus, a god and trickster who would defied him.

Prometheus created men in the image of the gods, which Zeus was not cool with as that was a Zeus job.

Prometheus then gave people the gift of fire, which he'd stolen from the gods.

Pandora and Prometheus' brother Epimepheus were married.

Before leaving Pandora on Earth, Zeus gave her a jar, saying it was a special gift that she must never open.

The unknown contents of the jar endlessly prodded her curiosity, and she eventually opened it, which ended paradise for all humankind.

From the jar poured all the troubles of the world, madness, greed, violence, sorrow, disease, vice, old age, death.

Humans would feel suffering now, yet the one bright beacon was the item Prometheus had secreted into the jar.

At the bottom remained hope, which gave those on Earth the will to survive.

Zeus also chained Prometheus to a rock and had an eagle eat his liver every day, which would regenerate each night to be eaten again the next day by the same giant screeching eagle.

Prometheus was eventually freed.

Over time and through mistranslation, Pandora's jar became a box, and the myth as a metaphor has endured for centuries.

It has been used to emphasize the possibly world-ending consequences of nuclear war, AI technology takeover, and COVID-19.

The box is commonly used when detailing anything related to former President, and let's not forget the latest Mission Impossible sequel.

It, like most of the series, revolves around the acquisition of a Pandora's box like Superweapon, which Ethan Hunt must run after at top speed.

Jennifer Aniston even got in the game during an interview saying, marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the backburner, the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities.

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